Week 12 Reflections

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Prompt:What does it mean to manage/regulate yourself (self-regulate) and others during learning experiences? How does it bring you towards goals? How important is communication in this process and what helps/impedes it?

 I have always looked at self regulation as once of the more difficult things for me to handle when it comes to learning experiences.  When I am the facilitator or teacher, I have the likelihood to rush through things I have already done, or think the students should have already learned.  Taking time to go back and remember that this is the first time some of these kids are hearing this, or that hearing it just one time is not enough for all kids to understand it is a difficult thing for me to remember.

When it comes to others, I have a much better understanding how to regulate experiences.  Frequent checks for understanding and personal questions of motivation are used my class often.  Often times I use simple visual cue for understanding such as fist to five, or thumbs up thumbs down.

It really is the communication that makes this possible.  I try really hard to create a classroom environment that encourages growth, questions, and has a little stigma of being "wrong" as I can.  I tell my kids nobody knows anything until they know it.

Even with that goal of open communication, sometime students don't want to talk to a teacher, or to their other students, and they just want to put their head in the sad.  When I circle back to my kids who aren't really doing anything and I ask them why, my least favorite answer is "I don't know what to do."  Not because they aren't doing something, but because I have failed to communicate with them in the right way so that I should have already known they don't get it.  Communication is key in all relationships.

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